The Nine Club
The Nine Club is a skateboarding podcast and web series founded by Chris Roberts in June 2016. The program is hosted by Roberts, Roger Bagley, and Kelly Hart. Each episode features a lengthy interview-style roundtable discussion with an iconic skateboarding personality renowned for their role in skateboarding culture. Each episode varies from thirty-five minutes to two hours in length. Guests range from former and current professional skateboarders to industry personalities. Actors, musicians, and artists who have a significant personal history with skateboarding have also appeared, including Ben Harper, Lil Wayne, and Austin Amelio, among others.
History
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In 2016, Roberts started The Nine Club, a roundtable interview program then hosted by Roberts and Roger Bagley.[1] Kelly Hart was the first guest and later became a member of the hosting cast. The show has over fifty episodes and reached its one-year anniversary in June 2017 after interviewing some of the most legendary personalities in professional skateboarding, including Mike Carroll, Marc Johnson, Paul Rodriguez, and Andrew Reynolds.[2]
The program has the tagline "the show that has skaters talking." Guests often provide humorous and historically insightful stories and anecdotes about skateboarding culture and history through their own unique experiences and perspectives. Guests have commented on the show's intellectual and historiographic merits, highlighting the program's value as an oral history archive and conceptual relationship to programs such as the Smithsonian's Innoskate program.[3]
Notable Guests
The Nine Club featured rapper Li'l Wayne, who is a recreational skateboarder, in late 2016, garnering over 350,000 views.[4] Previously, Ben Harper appeared in episode #16. Actor Austin Amelio, best known for his role as Dwight on The Walking Dead, was a guest on episode #45.
Set and Symbolic Gifts
The set is arranged and decorated with skateboarding memorabilia and props specific to each guest.
Guests have provided symbolic gifts for the set. For example, in episode #36 Marc Johnson provided the set with a digital picture frame that plays Roberts' world-famous switch kickflip, switch manual at the West LA Courthouse, looping the trick on repeat. In episode #43, Erik Bragg provided the hosts with a vintage styled The Nine Club neon sign. Both artifacts are prominently displayed on set and are visible throughout subsequent episodes. Brian Wenning also provided Kelly Hart with one of his original Habitat pro model decks on episode #53.[5]
In episode #58, Mark Appleyard gave Roberts and Bagley a framed caricature of themselves at The Nine Club studio. Appleyard also gifted Hart a pair of his signature decks, one from Flip and one from Element.
Episodes and Guests
| Episode number | Guest | Date | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kelly Hart | June 6, 2016 | |
| #2 | Joey Brezinski | ||
| #3 | Daniel Castillo | ||
| #4 | Louie Barletta | ||
| #5 | Justin Eldridge | ||
| #6 | Daniel Espinoza | ||
| #7 | Davis Torgerson | ||
| #8 | Van Styles | ||
| #8 Bonus Conversation | Kelly Hart & Van Styles | ||
| #9 | Matt Miller | ||
| #10 | Spanish Mike | ||
| #11 | Torey Pudwill | ||
| #12 | Paul Rodriguez | ||
| #13 | Blake Johnson | ||
| #14 | Anthony Mapstone | ||
| #15 | Paul Hart | ||
| #16 | Ben Harper | ||
| #17 | Giovanni Reda | ||
| #18 | Jeron Wilson | ||
| #19 | Jason Hernandez | ||
| #20 | Mike York | ||
| #21 | Tom Asta | ||
| #22 | Brandon Biebel | ||
| #23 | Don Brown | ||
| #24 | Rick McCrank | ||
| #25 | Lil Wayne | ||
| #26 | Mike Mo Capaldi | ||
| #27 | Andrew Brophy | ||
| #28 | Jereme Rogers | ||
| #29 | Jack Curtin | ||
| 2016 Nine Club Round-Up | Roberts, Bagley, Hart | ||
| #30 | Gino Iannucci | ||
| #31 | Jamie Foy | ||
| #32 | Frank Gerwer | ||
| #33 | Nora Vasconcellos | ||
| #34 | Sierra Fellers | ||
| #35 | Wade DesArmo | ||
| #36 | Marc Johnson | ||
| #37 | Carlos Ribeiro | ||
| #38 | Miles Silvas | ||
| #39 | Steve Olson | ||
| #40 | Eli Reed | ||
| #41 | Daryl Angel | ||
| #42 | Jeremy Wray | ||
| #43 | Erik Bragg | ||
| #44 | Stevie Williams | April 17, 2017 | 1:33:27 |
| #45 | Austin Amelio | April 24, 2017 | 1:13:06 |
| #46 | Shane Heyl | May 1, 2017 | 1:44:57 |
| #47 | Mikey Taylor | May 8, 2017 | 1:43:35 |
| #48 | Felipe Gustavo | May 15, 2017 | 1:27:02 |
| #49 | Terry Kennedy | May 22, 2017 | 1:12:04 |
| #50 | Mike Sinclair | May 29, 2017 | 1:28:10 |
| #51 | Ryan Clements | June 5, 2017 | 1:50:44 |
| #52 | Mike Carroll | June 12, 2017 | 1:47:42 |
| Lakai "The Flare" Premiere | Various | June 19, 2017 | 1:48:09 |
| #53 | Brian Wenning | June 26, 2017 | 1:07:49 |
| #54 | Braydon Szafranski | July 3, 2017 | 1:22:14 |
| #55 | Andrew Reynolds | July 10, 2017 | 2:04:47 |
| #56 | Vinny Ponte | July 17, 2017 | 1:27:04 |
| #57 | Sal Barbier | July 24, 2017 | 1:57:17 |
| #58 | Mark Appleyard | July 31, 2017 | 1:24:08 |
- ↑ "The Nine Club With Chris Roberts". THE NINE CLUB WITH CHRIS ROBERTS. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
- ↑ "The Nine Club". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
- ↑ The Nine Club (2017-06-05), Ryan Clements | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 51, retrieved 2017-06-25
- ↑ The Nine Club (2016-11-28), Lil Wayne | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 25, retrieved 2017-06-24
- ↑ The Nine Club (2017-06-26), Brian Wenning | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 53, retrieved 2017-06-26